I Am An Adult; Deliberately Naïve, Dewy-eyed

Everybody Has A Cartoon Of Themselves. Mine Is: I Write Very Fast, And I'm Ruthlessly Efficient With My Time.

Vladimir Putin Wants Practical Things, Like The End Of Economic Sanctions, But He Also Wants Far Greater Sway In Europe And In The Overall Ideological Trends Of The World.

If This Day Means Anything, It Means That You Are Now In The Contingent Of The Responsible. You Must Be Kind, Yes, But You Must Also Look Beyond Your Own House. We're Depending On You For Your Efforts And Your Vision. We Are Depending On Your Eye And Your Imagination To Identify What Wrongs Exist And Persist, And On Your Hands, Your Backs, Your Efforts, To Right Them.

The Future Is Itself A Story, And Predictions Are Stories We Tell To Amaze Ourselves, To Give Hope To The Desperate, To Jolt The Complacent.

Russian Is Such A Tough And Complex Language That I Am Happy Enough To Understand Everything And Read Most Things Pretty Well, But, Without Constant Practice, My Speech Is Not What I Wish It Was, And I Would Sooner Write In Crayon Than Write A Letter In Russian.